Award-Winning Customer Samplers

Dear Scarlet Letter,I am proud to announce that my sampler “Sara Tatum”, from 1800, a Quaker piece recently won every prize possible in our Weld County Fair. Weld County is the largest County in Colorado. I entered the sampler on a whim, at the last minute. It won a blue ribbon for the sampler category,…

I thought that you might be interested in seeing a picture of my version of the IRS sampler of which I bought the pattern from you. I personalized it with my own initials, and exchanged some of the alphabet with my family name, of German Heritage. I recently entered it at the county fair, and…

by Ilana KayeA German Band Sampler, circa 1710This won first place at the Maryland State Fair.

Love looking at other customers photos of their finished projects from “Scarlet Letter” and couldn’t resist sending in photos of one of mine. I taught myself in “84” and entered my first competition shortly after and have been winning ribbons every since. I am sending photos of my “Isabel Redie” Sampler. Normally, I am drawn…

by Harriet L. Harms Scarlet Letter Lady, I WON, I WON, I WON!!! I just got the phone call from the Williamson County Fair judge for the cross stitch category telling me I won the BLUE RIBBON for my sampler of “Three Late Seventeenth Century Band Samplers from the School of Juda Hayle of Ipswich,…